Showing posts with label Interview FAQS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interview FAQS. Show all posts

Dec 12, 2012

How does Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 works?

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A file called CMDUI.XML stays at the web front end which contains the Out-of-Box site wide Ribbon implementation i.e. all the Ribbon UI for the entire site. In addition to this you have a CustomAction for each ribbon component.

These CustomActions have CommandUIExtentions block which has CommandUIDefinitions and CommandUIHandlers which make up the activity of the ribbon component.

So, when the ribbon is loaded the CommandUIDefinition merges with Out-of-Box definition in the CMDUI.XML

Aug 28, 2012

Advantage of PowerShell over STSADM

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In SharePoint 2010, new concept called Power Shell is introduced. The main adavantage of using Windows Power Shell over STSADM is follows:
  • Windows PowerShell is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and accepts and returns .NET Framework objects. Hence, can interact with .Net objects directly.
  • Here we use commandlets (cmdlet) instead of commands. Commandlet is a instance of .Net objects
  • We can automate the tasks using power shell scripts.
  • Windows PowerShell also gives you access to the file system on the computer and enables you to access other data stores, such as the registry and digital signature certificate stores.

Jul 1, 2012

Visual Studio Workflow in SharePoint

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Part I
To know about the Basics of Workflow in SharePoint, read this article.
To know about the Creating a Designer Workflow, read this article.
To know about the New Features added in SharePoint Designer 2010, read this article.
In this we will learn about Basics of Visual Studio Workflows in SharePoint.
Windows Workflow Foundation -WWF:
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a Microsoft technology for defining, executing, and managing workflows.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Workflow_Foundation
Why Visual Studio Workflow is necessary?
From the business perspective, we need some custom workflows to be designed and developed in order to meet the requirements. By using designer, we cannot achieve all the custom actions and hence Visual Studio workflows are necessary.
Moreover, Visual Studio is a known environment to the developers (working with Microsoft Software’s) and hence the design and development is very easy.
Software Requirements
  Ø  Windows Server 2003 R2 Download
  Ø  Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 Download
  Ø  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Download
  Ø  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 Download
  Ø  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK Download
  Ø  Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Download
   Limitations of using Designer Workflow:
  Ø  A major disadvantage is that, you can create only Sequential Workflows using designer and not the State Machine workflows.
  Ø  We cannot write custom code and custom activities for workflows while creating using designer.
  Ø  Maintenance and upgradeable methods are very less.
To know how to create a sample Sequential Workflow using Visual Studio, read this article Visual Studio Workflow in SharePoint.

Jun 21, 2012

Jun 19, 2012

Versions of SharePoint

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Ø  Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) (Year 2002)
Ø  SharePoint Portal Server (Year 2003)
Ø  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Year 2003) – Free Ware
Ø  Microsoft Office Share Point Server (MOSS) (Year 2007) (Built on .NET 2.0) –    
   Combination of CMS and SharePoint Portal Server
Ø  SharePoint Foundation Server (Year 2010) – Free Ware
Ø  Microsoft SharePoint Server (Year 2010)

Jun 6, 2012

What is SharePoint?

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Let us also start the Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Dot Net tutorials in this blog which will help us in attending the interviews.
  • In simple words, it is Business Collaboration Software developed by Microsoft.
  • It is a Web based application allows the people in an organization to collaborate or work together more efficiently.
  • In an organization the information (Documents, files, information, etc.) may be scattered and by using the SharePoint we can easily collaborate and work with the others data easily – Information Centrally stored. Hence the time is less which increases efficiency.